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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER AAM
COLLEGE STATION (Aggietand), TEXAS, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1950
Vacation Voyage
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Juniors
Plan Holiday
Gulf Cruise
Thirty ntudents from the Trans
portation Corps and other branches
of ROTC, at A&M will take a
training' cruise in the Gulf of
Mexico during the Easter Holidays,
according to Captain Gay Camp
bell, TC military science profes
sor. |
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All Transportation Corps jun
iors a’nd. at least one representa-
. tive from every other branch will
take the cruise. It is being planned
- as a. regular activity for each
. spring. . . ’
i" This is the first time that such
» '.raining has been given at A&M.
although Tulane, University of
Washington,. University of Califor
nia, already ? offered it. For this
cruise, only ■ A&M cadets will be
’ aboard.
. Military Activities aboard the
Freight : Supply Vessel will con
sist of on-the-job training so as
• i to enable each cadet to observe the
three departments of the ship:
deck, engine, and bridge. The ship
belongs to " the Transportation
Corps, and is completely manned
by TC personnel.
Major P. J. Brennan, Captain
Campbell, Sgt_ lei Lester Rinkel
of the Military Department, and
Dr. T. O. Walton of the Naval
Reserve, as Medical officer, will
C "■ accompany th_e students' on the
tour.
t Corpus Christi will be used as a
port of call Easter morning.
Mary Ellen Martin
Mary, who hails from Athens,
Texas, will represent the Hen
derson Qotinty club as duchess,
in the CotUm Pageant and Ball.
She will be escorted by 1 Leo Brad-
ley.
f Cash Talks Tonight
On Corn Producing
Russell Cash of Atlanta, Texas, i
com producer of that,section of
the state, will ili>eak on com pr4r
duction in the District Court
Room-of the Brazos County Court
House tonight at 7:30, according
to Ike Morrison|‘ regional super
visor of VeterRn’fe Vocational Edu
cation. - : j
The talk will be sponsored by
the VeUiruns Vocational Agricul
tural Students of Brazosf County.'
Cash has won outstanding re
cognition in the past-several years
by producing 100 biithels of com
per acre at a cost of 18.6 cents
per bushel. His talk will be accom
panied by colored slides on his
methods of fertilization and cul
tivation to N produce high t com
^ yields. —j ’ - - ■
Several Vocational Agricultural
Veterans have heard Cash' speak
before and believe 1 it worthwhile
i for all farmers interested ih. high
er com yields tso hear hiihl
“Cash has a grass roots” phil
osophy of com production.ulHe is
a man who loves the soil and the
people on the soil and is trying/ to
do* his part to help both,” Mor
rison added. , /
Cash is on an eight county speak
ing tour. He spoke in Budeson
County Monday night; will speak
here tonight, and in Robertson
County tomorrow night.
Aggie Placers Tryout
Tryouts for the Aggie Players
_ next production, “O Mistress
Mine,” will be held 1 today- and
-Wednesday from 5 to 6 p. m. in
the Music Hail, according to
i George Dillavou.
Joan Temple
Misa Temple, a student »t Paris
Junior College, will represent
the Lamar County A&M Club
as their duchess in the Cotton
Pageant and Ball. She' will be
escorted by Bob Skidmore, sen
ior Ag Eco major. Both hail
from Paris, Texas.
Controls
By C. C. MUNROE
A warning against increasing
federal control of the national eco
nomy was sounded last night by the
president of the American Farm
Bureau : Federation.
Allen Kline, speaking before the
Great Issues Class, explained,
“The greatest delusion of our time
is the belief that we can find per
fect sedurity in law.”
Kline* -who as president of the;
AFBF i represents more than 1 -a:
million -farm- families, said Ameri
cans face an important decision
today. They must choose between a
guaranteed security with its ac-'
compSnying government restric-
tibhs and a challenging future
.based On freedom of choice in in
dividual, actipns.
William Wilson
Wins ASME
Speech Contest
“Determination- of Stress by
Photo-elastic Methods” won Wil
liam R; Wilson of A&M first place
in technical speech and a prize of
fifty-dollars at the annual ASME
Student Regional Conference held
in Ddllhs on the campus of South
ern Methodist University March
31 and; April 4.
, J. U. Flanaigan, another A&M
student, won third place in techni
cal speech and was Awarded a prize
of twiSflty dollars. H1b toplr was
“Automatic packaging.”
E. E. Poharl of TU took second
place in technical speech and re
ceived a prize of thirty dollars
after speaking on “Steam Turbine
Locomotives.”
This was the first time since
1944 t)iat A&M has placed in the
conference.
(Twelve mefi attended the con
ference accompanied by their
coach, Bur)
assistant pro
fessor of Mechanical Engineering.
- Late Wire Briefs -
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Austin, Tex., April 4 —— Training in what to do for atomic
injuries will soon be provided for Texas doctors.
The State Health Department announced, toddy that its director of
cancer control. Dr. William S. Brumage, has been named to the Atomic
Energy Commission as a participant in teacher-training in medical
aspects of atomic warfare.
Austin, Tex^ April 4—UP*—Gor. Allan Shivers yesterday by tele
gram urged President Truman to sign the Kerr bill.
The telegram read in part: .
“Respectively urge your approval of Kerr bill as enacted by House
and Senate. This measure is of basic importance to Texas and other
gas-producing states, since it enables natural gas owners and pro
ducers to retain control of their gas
t^y on sound basis.”
Calcutta, India, April 4—1A1—The dream of Dianna and Bob
Bixby of breaking the world circling aviation record ended yesterday
when a faulty engine forced them to return to Calcutta after taking
off for Tokyo. ][ . T 1 jT
With all hope of beating the record of the late Bill Odom in 1947
gone, the Bixby’s decided to take a breather and wait for a takeoff to
Tokyo until this afternoon.
The Bixby's hajd covered 11,836 miles On the 20,736 they had
scheduled from San Fraiicisco around the world and back to the
Golden Gate city. They were well over half their journey in just over
40 hours.
production and thus keep indus-
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Not the U. S. Army Band, not the New York
* Philharmonic, not Spike Jonea, but seniors of
the Tt^gie Band turned out in full force In honor
of April Fool’s Day last week. Blaring out with
such Aggie-honored marching songs as ‘Texas
Fight,” “Rice’s Honor,” and similar tunes, the
sharply uniformed cadets played for the noon
mesa formation and march-in. After the last
outfit entered Duncan Hall the April Fool’s Band
through both wings of the building.
“A stabilized high-cost economy
takes the dynamism from Amer
ica,” he said.
Kline drew a parallel between
the United States in 1960 and
Britain in 1860. The latter nation,
he said, is jndicitive of the results
of a too-rigidly controlled economy.
In 1860, Kline continued, Britain
led the world in agriculture, indus
try, and the field of political
thought. It was the leading power.
The United States offered no com
petition in 1860.
However, he continued,- the Brit
ish started on the road to increas
ing government control of the eco
nomy. The trend in this direction
was strengthened by two world
wars. Finally, he pointed out,
these controls climaxed in the'
kind of government offered by the
Labor Party today.
This relinquishing of the sys
tem of “free choice” removed Brit
ain from her position as a world
leader, he contended. Now she has
austerity from choice, not neces
sity.
“We can copy failure . . . and
invite tyranny,” he said, if we
continue our present trend toward
a’ more rigid economy. And if we
do continue it, he pointed out, we
are in danger of losing our position
as the leading nation in the world.
“We have the wherewithal! in
this country to do what we Wish
with our ideas,” he said. “We can
do anything.” But, he,said, we need
leadership here and niow.
“The question is riot where is
America now,” Kline said, “but
where is it going.” [<
The president of the Americart
Fatm Bureau Federation outlined
his' idea for improving th'S farm
er’s chances for prosperity upon ,
which so much of the nation’s eco
nomic health depends. They in-
dulled:,
1. High production per man
and a constantly improving dis
tribution system throughout the
rest of the economy.
2. Good international trade.
3. A stable price level based
on a stable currency, not govern
ment coupons, requisitions, or-
ders,.or trade slips.
the farmer must remember that
he-will sell himself di>wn the river
if he sells his right to produce
what he wants, Kline said. This
is especially true if a depression
should come.
During a depression, he con
tinued, every businessman and far
mer runs to the government, seek
ing controls which will insure his
business Wom failure. This is es
pecially true of the farmer, he said,
because under a free; price system
the farmer goes broke when the
price level drops. Reason for this
is the rapid increase; in farm coat
combined with a relatively slow
decrease during bad times.
Martha Lon
Martha, a senior at Grosbeck
High School, will represent the
combined band as their duchess
In the Cotton Pageant and Ball.
Her escort will be Lowell Holmes,
maroon band member from Don
na, Texas.
Governor Witnesses
BUShi
Price Five
H
liters
ccellence and a
ion today las
Candidates Begin ^up.
For Activities Election
By GEORGE McBEE
Filings have begun for positions
in the various campus elections
to be held April 18. The date for
these filings will be between April
1 and 15.
Positions open are Co-editor of
the Battalion. Co-editors of the
Aggieland, Editor of the Engineer,
Editor of the Commentator, Edi
tor of the Agriculturist, Editor of
the Southwestern Veterinarian,
Veteran Yett Leader, Corps junior
’nssir/zs 1 Wsaf*? 1 *
the Athletic Council.
Deadline for filing for these
positions will be 12 noon, Saturday,
April 16. Regular elections will be
April 18, and any runoff elections
will be April 20. ’ ,
Students who had filed for posi
tions by 6 p. m. Monday are
George V. Chariton, journalism
major from; Dallas, for Editor of
the Commentator, Ray N. Williams,
C. E. major from Fort Worth for
veteran co-editor of the Battalidn,
Bill E- Richey Geological Engin
eering major from San Antonio
for Senior Yell Leader, and Homer
J. Finch, M. E. major from Dallas,
and Jim Kadel, M. E. Major from
Houston for editor of the Engin
eer. —'
Requirements for filing for these
offices are as follows:
To file fori Senior yell leader,
the applicant must jiave a 1:25
grade point ratio and be a classi
fied junior at time of filing. Jun
ior yell leaders of the past year
automatically become candidates
for this positions, but they must
he elected by voting.
Requirements for filing for jun
ior yell leader are the same as
the senior requirements, except
the applicant must be a classified
sophomore at the time of filing.
The requirements for the vete
ran yeH; leader are that he must
be a classified junior and have a
grade point ratio of 1.26.
A candidate must have the con
sent of the Director of Student
Activities before filing for Town
HaU Manager. He must have a
_»tio an< j a
must also have
on the, en-.
-if*" W
rtainment Bis
Qualification
the Battaiiob
The
for co-editor of
Aggieland are
candidates must
a't.afc grade po int ratio and
the sa
have a 1.26 grade noil
be a classified junior. They must
be taking at least 12 hours, and
have pasted 3/6 of their work for
the Jjmst semester, ’ Approval to
file ftor the offices must be ob
tained from the Manager of Stu-
provide training Ifor the editorship.
Qualifications for editors of the
magazines are tlje same as those
for the co-editors of the Battalion
and the Aggieland.
Requirements for non-military
candidates are the same as for
-Corps candidate.
Dr. Plotter Recovering
In Cle
>tter Reco
veland He
Hospital
Dr. G. E. Potter of the Biology
Department is expected to be
able to return home from the
Cleveland, Ohio hospital in about
three weeks, according to his
physician.
But His Job’s Still Safe
Here 9 s the One Big Feature
That Coslett Won H Handle
By BILL BILLINGSLEY
It’s ironical that one of the Bat
talion’s best feature subjects of
the year won’t be covered by the
man who usually gets all our big
feature assignments. ^
The man who gets the fabulous
stories is Dave Coslett, Battalion
feature editor and worker ex
ordinary. He gets the big ones
the pure and simple reason that
he can always get more dope, pre
sent it more interestingly, and just
generally wring the last drop of
interest out of any situation bet
ted than anybody on the staff.
He’s not writing the feature on
The Batalion’s /Winning a $600
dollar award for the best Christmas
safety sectiop among collegiate
dailies for reasons of modesty: He
did most qf the work on the..sec
tion. /
got wind of the con
test #6r special safety sections,
we preicted in our customary man-
all conventions, contests,
social events—we wanted to
get in it. Had it been a conven
tion or social event, either one, or
both, of the co-editors would have
gone. But since it was a contest,
requiring considerable work, we
tossed the details on the feature
desk and bade Coalett get with it
while we went out for a cup of
coffee.
His reaction was the usual one.
Quietly, smoothly, he called his
feature troops together, mapped
out his plan to them, and in his
stage-whisper office voice issued
eacV of them a small portion of
Then he sat down and wrote two
of the three lead stories,- wrote
most of the small stories, and
layed out his half of the paper in
a couple of days. When his faith
ful few of the feature staff turned
in their copy, he stayed up all
that night and most of the next
editing the copy. The fourth night
he put on a printer’s apron and
spent the small hours shuffling the
type into the frames to make
sure the make up job was just
right. Five days and several lost
grade points from the time we
gave him the dope, the Coslett
Copy Corporation, had turned out
a three page section worth $600
and the title of No. 1 in the nation.
To be sure, he had some terrific
assistance. Jack Brandt, our staff
cartoonist, worked on the edition
and exhibit plate* for the entry;
and the feature writers, who, like
the rest of our staff, work too
many hour for too little apprecia
tion and renumeration, did fine
jobs.
But in the end the boy who car
ried the hall was old dependable
Dave Coslett the same guy that
never needs his assignment ex
plained to him, the lad who gets
his story and gets it one time, and
the citizen who’s still there wh£n
there’s more work to be done.
Dave has written a lot of good
copy for us this year. His by-line
has probably appeared in The Batt
more than has any other single
person's. He’s lost quite a bit of
sleep and a lot ; of points with pro
fessors for regaining the sleep in
their classes. But his stories al
ways, reflect that extra amount of
work.
Normally, he would’ve been the
first person we tossed a Juicy fea
ture assignment Hite the $600
award. But we were afraid that
this time he might leave out most
of the improUnt production de
tails, and not turn in complete job.
I suppose, though, that you
should expect a story to show up
new and then that even a Coslett
can’t cover. After all. one in sev
eral thousand isn’t such a bad ra-
tio. • -i'.-, Ji
And even though he isn’t ,
feet, we like to keep him aro
for standby reasons. He’s wc
the eight or nine cents an hour we
pay him, and who knows? We
might want to take off on another
convention in a couple of days, and
its reassuring to have somebody
who can write a passable feature
to hang around the office.
Edits Winning Safety Section
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Toxic Research
“We at Lumberman’s thank you
and your publication for your part 1
ticipation in this campaign to re
duce the appallingly high acci
dent and fatality rate among
young drivers.” \ \
Hardaker came to A&M from
Chicago to make the presentation
for the company. He arrived this
morning. V '
Notification that The Battalior
had won the certificate and cash
award was received last week
Bill Billingsley and C. C. Munr
coj-editors of the paper.
Bait National
In a letter from Lumberman’;
home office in Chicago, Hardake
pleases me very much U
ou that your publlcatfon’i
treatment of the aubjec
holiday safe driving has bee:
awarded first prize of $600 in ti
daily classification by judges
the 1949 College Newspaper Coni
test on Safe Driving.
“Congratulations to you land
your staff for the excellent way 1
which you handled the job sellin
safety to your readers and foi
your splendid cooperation in thi
campaign to reduce the holldu
accident toll.’’ . j i
The Battalion’s special salfety
edition was published Dec. 16.
More than 26 news and feature ar
ticles, six pictures and cartoons,
eight safety advertisements, and
an editorial were included in the
special section.
° Judges of the contest were Rep
resentative Joseph W. Martin;
Herman W. Steinkraus, president
of .the U. S. Chjamber of Commerce;
James T. Berryman, Washington
Star cartoonist; George E. Allen,
Washington and New York busi
ness executive, and Merle Thdrpe,
proponent publicist.
Special Letters
Messages from President Bol
ton, Dean Harrington, and Mayor
Ernest Langford of College Sta
tion, all stressing safe driving dur
ing the holidays, were printed on
the first page.
A follow-up story in the Jan.
4 issue of The Battalion revealed
that A&M students enjoyed one
of the most accident free holi
days in many years.
Bennie A. Zinn, assistant dean of
student^, described the periodl fol
lowing the holidays as “the first
§ince I’ve been with the college
that didn’t end witli a stack of
telegrams on my desk concerning
serious injuries or death.”
Governor/Shivers came to
award ceremony from
in Bryan/ He was escorted
Chancellor Gilchrist.
First prize for non-dailies went
to Ohio - Wesleyan University’s
‘Transcript.” The University of
Southern California’s “T.roj
took second prise for dailies
the “Sunflower” of the Universi
ty of Wichita took second prize for
non-dailies. Third prizes went to
Oklahoma A&M’s “Daily O’Col-
legian” and the “Baloo” of the
University of Baltimore. || I i
Individual prises for
safe driving editorial, fea
and cartooi went to the
ty of New Hampshire’s
Hampshire/’ the Uni'
Gettysburg's “Gettysbu
the University of Oklah
lahoma Daily.”
Award Pres
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A Certificate for Editorial
$500 were awarded to The Batt
winner in a nationwide contest among 250 college newsj
R. L. Hardaker, representing LumbermaiTs Mutui
ualty Insurance Company, sponsor of the contest pre
the certificate and check to Dave Coslett, feature edi
The Battalion, j V. / - :
Governor Allan Shivers, Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist, and
President F. C. Bolton attended the award ceremony jin the
South Solarium of the YMCA. r J
The Battalion won the award on the strength of its edi
torial treatment of the subject of safe driving prior to the
Christmas holidays. Coslett edited the special safety editi
The contest was conducted by the insurance company
as part of its drive to encourage safe driving throughout tpe
nation. Papers were judged on treatment of the subject s
on their classification as dailies, semi-weeklies, and weekli
Announcement of the award to The Battalion is being
made today in papers throughout the country. ♦
In a letter to President F. C. Bolton, the chairman of
Lumberman's James S. Kemper, said “As sponsors of the
contest, we are grateful for the fine support received from , (
college publications throughout the nation and particularly tx l f /'i 1
iTfor the impressive prize winning M HTlflQ I
enfry from your institution. | * UmlUO XF1. OlHX/U
A grant of $3,677 has been re
ceived by the; Departments of
Dairy Husbamlry and Biochemistry
and Nutrition ; ftom the Hercules
Powder Company; according to Dr.
R. D. Lewis, director of the Texas
Agriculture/ Experiment | Station.
Chancellor Gibb GHchVist has
‘been jijlvired of the grunt and will
report it to the Board of;Directors
at their June ibieeting f<>r formal
acceptance/. jji I/j.
The grant is for the purpose of
studying the tioxic effect, of toxa-
phene on dairy! cattle, including the
/secretion of this material or Its
metabolites in the milk, Dr. (Lewie
said. j.-
Three phases of the .problem are
oral feeding iolf adult cows to de
termine levels at which toxic
symptoms develop, chemical ana
lysis of milk from cows sprayed
with enough toxophene to control
ticks, and effects of feeding calves
ritilk from. cows fed moderate
doses of toiaphena. ' j ■
Professor R. E. Leighton of the
Dairy Hisbandry Department is M
charge! of the experiment. (<>-
workers and advisor* are Dr. I. W.
Hupei, head of the Department,
Dri C, M. Lyman, and K ' A.
Kuikeh of the Biochemistry and
Nutrition Department,
Q. Johnston, head of
ology Department.
the
dinner
by
Reveler to Wed A
Leo Ray Pevelef; junioi
Management and first s<
A Transportation Comi
be married
Jenny D.
N. M.
The
lege Stat
through ’.
States will
Saturday, Artril 8, to
Donaldson in Carlsbad,
plans to
A ho
ila and
made
ril8
of
1 y *
and Dr. it.
the Phi Cbm-
ireak
A friend of ours was in Austin
feur the Texas Relays this pant
Weekend, ^t a rip-roaring banquet
He encountered Peppy Blount, thel
University- legal eagle a,hd guard-1
tan of Texas morals.
Feppy> who is also Bn ardent
supporter df interplanetary peacb
between Mars and Tekas, coni’
mented that somebody oh the BaU-
talion editorial! staff wgs on his
heck. The cadet iaasured him no
harm was ^meant by our editorials
and then asked if he would like
to speak th the A&M students.
"Do you 1 have an ^assembly or
anything like that/' Peppy askedj
“No, other t|han a short tijdk iji
the mess hall we’d have., to call
a yell practice fof' the'ktudents
to all get together.” i- n
Peppy replied that he didn’t
believe a yell practice would hi
too appropriate. '
Why, Pep. what do you mean t
^1 Ahd while on the subject of
Relays and their attendant c<
brations here’s the story of
Aggie graduate who is how-ipresii
dertt of a big fraternity at thi
University.
Seems that after a| party he
loaned his car to a buddy wM
wasn’t feflingj any pain. Purposti
of the load was to enable the buddy
to take his gitl back to.'her soror
ity house before curfew. ^
/- The borrower did the deed,/ r
turned to the frat house and hhndi.
ed the car keyh to the Aggie, Theil
weren’t the right key*. f S
“Where did’ya get
Ag asked T
WHv,
I mm.;
The two went out to the si
where the bqrrower pointed
the car he had returned. It „„
the Mine model as the Agg bn
the same car. ' 1
Pya get these,” th
_ iKeq I
r, the *
out
not
They then beat it back to th
girl’s house where they effec '
an appropriate exchange of
hldejs with three bewildered To
8t ? n ( d J n *A °. n the 9lde ’
Sfbfrtf the Ag’s car parked
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